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TIL: In France, it is the law, that only a croissant made with pure butter can be straight

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ddaQ TIL: a brutal form of execution in ancient China, the Waist Chop, was outlawed after a victim survived long enough to write the Chinese symbol for “miserable” seven times in his own blood.
9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.
D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!
b6rgQ TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there
R7oDl TIL Venice does not have a complete modern sewage system, meaning its canals are also its sewer system.